But in San Diego the sun sets at 4:42, their shortest day is 10 hours of daylight, and the lowest avg temp on any day is 48. I could deal with that.

Dear chief, I fear this old boy just might have a screw loose talking about shorter days--but then it could be that he has been on the road and he is having withdrawals from not being able to post. Now I'm no doctor, but maybe, just maybe, by not being able to post, he has a cronic buildup of BS

Yes, the shorter days are depressing. Makes one think of the inevitability of death; how much longer do I have, will I be a vegatable, what was that little pain in my leg today; bad circulation, cancer, nothing? Was that little headache last night the sign of a coming stroke?

Yes, the shorter days are depressing. Makes one think of the inevitability of death; how much longer do I have, will I be a vegatable, what was that little pain in my leg today; bad circulation, cancer, nothing? Was that little headache last night the sign of a coming stroke?

Death is surely coming, whats after that? Oblivion I fear.

Don't worry- I have had a word with the rain god and for the next three days he is going to Go on Holiday. He didn't inform me where so I have set a solar panel up to replace my bald patch and by the time Dusk Comes it will be fully charfed for the Bar-B-Q's that I am going to tonight- Tomorrow and Monday (Which is a Bank holiday over here). Only pain I might be feeling is in the mornings so Roll on Tuesday when I can go back to work and relax.

We Hoosiers are new to this Daylight Savings Time business; some of us will be very bent out of shape when we loose a hour of life-sustaining daylight in October. That's on top of the incremental losses, already happening, that have been previously mentioned. Woe is us!

But DG started this thread. He lives in San Diego. What does he know of 105 degree days?

In the summer it regularly gets to 100 degrees in the East County, which is what we call the eastern suburbs, about 15-20 miles inland. I used to live in that area. Now that I live closer to downtown and the beach (but not on it, dammit), the climate is usually more temperate, often ten degrees or more cooler in the day and a little warmer at night (in the summer).

We get a swing of over 9 hours. That is, winter days are 8-9 hours shorter.
I am getting to the point where I hate it.

With each passing year, I dislike the short days more. As soon as Daylight Savings ends, this year on the first weekend of November, it is dark early. The sunset is 4:46PM on the first day of Central Standard Time. I usually get out of work at 5:30-6:00, so it is quite dark. Very depressing. It isn't until Feb 16th until the sunset is 5:30PM again. So it is 3 and a half months of coming out of work after the sun has set - usually to sub 20 degree temps, ice on the sidewalk, and a cold wind blowing. Then it takes 30 minutes to walk to my car and complete the drive home.

This past Jan I went to Florida for a week to break up that dark, cold monotony.

__________________"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour

There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post